Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy
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The Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy is an endowed professorship established at Harvard College in 1727 by Thomas Hollis.[1]
The incumbents have been:
- Isaac Greenwood (1727–1737)[1]
- John Winthrop (1737–1779)[1]
- Samuel Williams (1779–1789)[1]
- Samuel Webber (1789–1806)[1]
- John Farrar (1807–1838)[1]
- Joseph Lovering (1838–1888)[1]
- Benjamin Osgood Peirce (1888–1914)[1]
- Wallace Clement Sabine (1914–1919)[1]
- [clarification needed](1919–1921)
- Theodore Lyman (1921–1926)
- Percy Williams Bridgman (1926–1950)
- John Hasbrouck Van Vleck (1951–1969)
- Andrew Gleason (1969–1992)
- Bertrand Halperin (1992-)
